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Friday, 4 September 2015

LEGO Star Wars Darth Vader Buildable Figure set 75111 review

Today is the infamous #forcefriday and we were given the opportunity
to take part by LEGO, who have sent us 2 of the brand new Star Wars
buildable figures sets to have a play with - 75112 General Grievous and
75111 Darth Vader.

Darth Vader has 160 pieces and
is recommended for age 9+. Inside the box are the instruction leaflet, 3 bags of bricks and a fabric cloak.

It's a nice build. Easier than the General Grievous buildable figure, my
nearly 7 year old surprised us completely and built this one on
his own in one hour before school! Hence, no build photo's, but I do have photo's in my review of the General Grievous model and the style is very similar.

The buildable figures are based around Technic LEGO with absolutely tons of the ball and socket joints you find in Bionicle or Heroica figures. Even the armour plating and 'costume' elements are attached by ball joints and have some limited movement. The main torso is a really complex arrangement...

Darth Vader is a lot more poseable than you realise at first, and can be made to bend and sit. To make him sit properly you first need to lift up the two grey bits either side of his groin. We can't even work out why they're there?

All of the ball and socket joints make poses easy work, and there's more than enough rotation in the limbs, and movement in the 'costume' plates he's wearing.

The cloak is nice material which is quite stretchy but tends to catch on
every corner and fall away from the shoulder and that looks a bit rubbish. When the cloak is on properly though, it looks great.

He's not the most well-balanced figure and your younger builder might
find him a little frustrating at first, but practise makes pretty good....

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We feature play and entertainment for children and young people from tiny to teen and beyond. Skilled at Lego building, reviewing big kid toys and mending all things trodden on. Grieving the loss of our 16 year old to suicide in August 2014. I write about this occasionally, and I collect smiles as often as possible. You can find #TBCSmiles on the blog and my Instagram every 15th of the month - everyone is welcome to share their smiles.

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